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Story from John Andrew Prime, Shreveport Times:
Shreveport firefighters spent almost two hours Saturday afternoon battling a stubborn blaze in a metal storage building just south of the Market Street viaduct, at the northeast corner of Market’s intersection with 6th Street.
At peak, 21 fire units and their personnel were attacking the fire, which poured dense white and black acrid smoke into the air and snarled traffic passing through the area, which is often congested with traffic splitting onto Youree Drive and Spring Street South.
Callers reported heavy smoke coming from the single-story metal structure around 3:20 p.m.
Firefighters arriving on the scene found heavy smoke pouring from the structure, the former Kairos Global Building.
After almost two hours, heavy white-and-black smoke continued to pour from the building with occasional flames leaping from a structure atop it.
The fire was declared under control at 5:55 p.m. Its cause remains under investigation.
Fire spokesman Scott Wolverton said the old building had been enlarged several times over the years and contained wood shavings and other materials that led to a prolonged, stubborn fire that got into the walls and defied efforts to extinguish.
He said a unit from Fire Station 1 will monitor the situation through the night and respond to flareups as needed.
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